voidcandle
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This should be perma-death stuff. Don't shop at Target ever again, even if they reverse course in the future.
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This should be perma-death stuff. Don't shop at Target ever again, even if they reverse course in the future.
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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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Great job with the capitulation, @chuckschumer.com & @democrats.org. I guess the strategy was to lull the GOP into a false sense of security and then wait for the sun to go supernova.
Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people
Republicans Block Bill That Would Extend Affordable Care Act Tax Credits
Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.
www.huffpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great job with the capitulation, @chuckschumer.com & @democrats.org. I guess the strategy was to lull the GOP into a false sense of security and then wait for the sun to go supernova.
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🚨 URGENT!!!!!! Congress is trying to ram through 18 massive censorship/surveillance laws TODAY 🚨
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨 URGENT!!!!!! Congress is trying to ram through 18 massive censorship/surveillance laws TODAY 🚨
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
badinternetbills.com
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Tonight is the VGA but you can do something more productive than watch it: read a book, bake a cake, purchase and play an indie game, etc.
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Tonight is the VGA but you can do something more productive than watch it: read a book, bake a cake, purchase and play an indie game, etc.
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
Don't give more views to this circus of a show!
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I mean this: if your DAs and AGs aren’t talking about prosecuting this, get some who will if you possibly can. Either by shaming or voting.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I mean this: if your DAs and AGs aren’t talking about prosecuting this, get some who will if you possibly can. Either by shaming or voting.
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I became an AI skeptic bc the only cogent use cases AI boosters gave were, "a better search engine". but regular search engines already worked fine for 99% of people. the few folks who needed something more were like, me and my colleagues, none of whom found tremendous value in AI search tools
Anthropic is aggressively hitting me with ads on instagram for Claude and it’s all people being like “I use Claude to brainstorm” or asking Claude where they can find two colors together in a city. What a pile of crap, how does anybody still believe this is the future? It’s Search 2 and it sucks
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I became an AI skeptic bc the only cogent use cases AI boosters gave were, "a better search engine". but regular search engines already worked fine for 99% of people. the few folks who needed something more were like, me and my colleagues, none of whom found tremendous value in AI search tools
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Your man couldn’t even find an image of the cover of the book he was pretending to listen to
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Your man couldn’t even find an image of the cover of the book he was pretending to listen to
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Hey, I'm all here for the death of Funko but I need people to look at how the tariffs have hurt giant brands like this and then carefully think about how us indies are doing because trust me, we're feeling it FAR worse.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Hey, I'm all here for the death of Funko but I need people to look at how the tariffs have hurt giant brands like this and then carefully think about how us indies are doing because trust me, we're feeling it FAR worse.
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Having lived through two cat 5 Caribbean hurricanes: Jamaica will require aid for years. The devastation's hard to overstate. This is our new norm under climate change.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.
Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Having lived through two cat 5 Caribbean hurricanes: Jamaica will require aid for years. The devastation's hard to overstate. This is our new norm under climate change.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
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in 2020 the primary "antifa safehouse" was a 7/11 near the Justice Center staffed by some dudes who would pull people in off the street when they were running from gas clouds and lock the doors
shout out to those kings wherever they are
shout out to those kings wherever they are
The Oregonians interviewed a guy who Republicans have accused of running an “Antifa safe house.” The levels of MAGA derangement about Portland are truly off the charts.
October 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
in 2020 the primary "antifa safehouse" was a 7/11 near the Justice Center staffed by some dudes who would pull people in off the street when they were running from gas clouds and lock the doors
shout out to those kings wherever they are
shout out to those kings wherever they are
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jailbreaking my bed so i can sleep
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
jailbreaking my bed so i can sleep
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The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
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Hello, The Internet.
I hate doing this.
Our cat is sick. Wife brought him in to be on oxygen earlier this evening and I'm stuck at work. We've had him longer than we've been married.
I'd rather provide a service than beg, but I'm not above begging.
Please help.
gofund.me/b06240e67
I hate doing this.
Our cat is sick. Wife brought him in to be on oxygen earlier this evening and I'm stuck at work. We've had him longer than we've been married.
I'd rather provide a service than beg, but I'm not above begging.
Please help.
gofund.me/b06240e67
Donate to Help Our Precious Pluto with very bills, organized by David Frederick II
My name is David, my wife and I'm 14 year old cat -- our sweet precious bab… David Frederick II needs your support for Help Our Precious Pluto with very bills
gofund.me
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Hello, The Internet.
I hate doing this.
Our cat is sick. Wife brought him in to be on oxygen earlier this evening and I'm stuck at work. We've had him longer than we've been married.
I'd rather provide a service than beg, but I'm not above begging.
Please help.
gofund.me/b06240e67
I hate doing this.
Our cat is sick. Wife brought him in to be on oxygen earlier this evening and I'm stuck at work. We've had him longer than we've been married.
I'd rather provide a service than beg, but I'm not above begging.
Please help.
gofund.me/b06240e67
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This one goes out to everyone who said Itchio should "just" switch to a special high-risk payment processor for adult content 🙃
really interesting and probably pretty bad that they're going after high-risk payment processors directly now www.404media.co/florida-laws...
Florida Sues Hentai Site and High-Risk Payment Processor for Not Verifying Ages
Florida's attorney general claims Nutaku, Spicevids, and Segpay are in violation of the state's age verification law.
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This one goes out to everyone who said Itchio should "just" switch to a special high-risk payment processor for adult content 🙃
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…And in this example we have a major corporation pulling a show because it might too overtly criticize self-avowed white supremacist terror networks.
Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.
Apple Pulls The Savant From Its Release Schedule
Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.
www.vulture.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
…And in this example we have a major corporation pulling a show because it might too overtly criticize self-avowed white supremacist terror networks.
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Easily the best cokelike
September 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Easily the best cokelike
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Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.
i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody
My militantly de-woked alma mater, which Charlie Kirk did not attend, might erect a statue to him, for the same reasons that Sinclair media will be airing a memorial for him tonight on local stations nationwide: Because fuck you, that's why.
September 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.
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No particular reason
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
No particular reason
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I'm just gonna keep this one handy in the drawer for the day he dies.
Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service:
"He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponents."
"He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponents."
September 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I'm just gonna keep this one handy in the drawer for the day he dies.